Journal
REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
Volume 80, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3079688
Keywords
electrospinning; nanofabrication; nanofibres; polymer fibres
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [18206079]
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan for the provision of a doctoral scholarship
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [18206079] Funding Source: KAKEN
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A high performance electrospinning system has been successfully developed for production of highly uniform polymer nanofibers. The electrospinning system employed a proportional-integral-derivative control action to maintain a constant current during the production of polyvinyl acetate (PVAc) nanofibers from a precursor solution prepared by dissolution of the PVAc powder in dimethyl formamide so that high uniformity of the nanofibers was achieved. It was found that the cone jet length observed at the end of the needle during the injection of the precursor solution and the average diameter of the nanofibers decreased with decreasing Q/I, where Q is the flow rate of the precursor solution of the nanofibers and I is the current flowing through the electrospinning system. A power law obtained from the relation between the average diameter and Q/I is in accordance with the theoretical model.
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